CP3S said:

TheBoost said:

And for our first ever use of the word "robot," Karl Kapek's play RUR coined the term in 1921!

Fantastic play it is too! I've long wanted to adapt it to a screen play, but when it comes to padding it out and adding content I feel weird doing that with someone elses story.

Given it's significance, I've always wondered that RUR has never been adapted (except I think a BBC TV show in the 50s, could be wrong).

Of course, it has lots of wierd, dated, and very Czech things in it, like all the men proposing to the same chick and stuff, but it's still a very chilling tale.

Although anything that ends with...

90 YEAR OLD SPOILER ALERT

"and they're Adam and Eve...!" needs a little updating. :)

And just to be on-topic enough for Dictator Frink (another 90 year old spoiler!) here's pro-wrestlers SHOCKWAVE THE ROBOT and MECHA-MUMMY!